I get the idea that the two types of opinions often come from the same type of flawed logic. Hence the Prowler / GW comparison.
But I have to say....the Weasel is not the opposite of anyone on here. He stands alone in the fact that he typically carries NO logic in his arguments.
Kaos, maybe you and I watch a game, and afterwords, I can say "wow, we really ran the ball well today...when was the last time Auburn ran for 275 yards and threw for 225?". And you could watch the same game and legitimately say "wow, that was ugly....we won 38 to 35, but we gave up 527 yards to that team? If the defense isn't fixed soon we're doomed".
Both things could and are likely to be completely true. We could even agree with each others statements.
Weasel, on the other hand, would likely say something about how Auburn is doomed to go up in flames and soon to be the Vanderbilt of the SEC as long as "phukboy" stays in charge. The difference is this....he would say that even if he didn't watch the game or see a single thing Chizik did or didn't do!
You and I are gathering our opinions as we go. I'm seeing mostly encouraging things from the day he was hired (assembling his staff) through to this first full recruiting class (a very strong one). It's not all perfect. I want to see a better defense (scheme, technique, etc). But to me, I expect to see an improvement as more talent and depth enter the picture. Some one else may see this years defense and imagine that it won't get better. At that point, we just differ on our future expectations. No big deal. No one is hating and no one is sunshine pumping.
Again, this is NOT how GW functions. He doesn't take in new information, analyze it with some bit of integrity, and then make adjustments to his opinion. With where he started on his opinion, he should be the most encouraged person here....because the reality so far has exceeded his expectations by the widest of margins. Maybe I though we'd win 7 games this year. Well we won 8, I'm a little encouraged. Maybe someone else thought we'd win 9, so they are slightly let down.
Well this guy thought we'd go 2-10....so shouldn't he be elated to see we were 6 games better than expected? He thought recruiting would go into the dark ages and set us back a decade. We're likely to have a top 5 or top 7 class this year. Shouldn't he be ecstatic to learn we're so much better at recruiting than he anticipated?
But, see, we're back to my point. He doesn't function this way. He is in a vacuum. He may as well leave all this behind and just continue his hate in a basement with no windows and no electricity....because no new information form the outside world is going to change anything in his broken record-player head.
You may think Prowler or others are stuck in eternal positive mode....but it just isn't at all the same thing. They at least look for positive in reality. Greasey doesn't even have the ability to see reality.
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